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TR: a Westward tour, sirs
Nothing crazy here, just some pics from taking my laptop, splitboard, and an extremely large ski bag fraying at the edges at the far end of its life on the road West for a few weeks to rebate on the east coast season.
The trip began in the Cascades, following a very intense four day trip for work to the white privilege conference, which was an incredible experience and very profound personally and professionally (learning to identify systems of white dominance in life and work) but thus completely exhausting. Naturally, charging Northwest cement seemed an appropriate recovery tactic.
We began at Alpental, where it was pouring rain at the base and nuking snow at the top with few takers.
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Anyplace where the best terrain is accessible off a fixed double is alright with me. This place is awesome!!
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I was a big Alpy fan. Such fun terrain all the way to the lift, even if the majority of the back bowls were closed. Ran into the wise Chris Bobby and quickly showed the limit of my quads and of my intermediate snowboarding talent. Who cares, it was Awesome!!
The next day we went to Crystal, with its astounding views of the Narnia that is Rainier.
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Fun terrain, although I was no match for the dust on crust and refrozen spring chunder.
